Re: HYB: history - educating hybridizers?

I belong to a hybridizers' group that meets a few times a year. Right now it pulls hybridizers from Phoenix and Tucson mainly, and we meet halfway between in Casa Grande.  The majority of us are students and we are searching the archives, bulletins from AIS and other sources to share with each other during the meetings so that we can expand our knowledge of hybridizing iris, plus we share our own experiences and trials.   

Matter of fact, I am researching right now and putting together a talk on iris pigments and pigment distribution in iris that I can hopefully share and make easy to understand by this coming Saturday.  It is very complex and science has not researched enough about it to explain it all.  However, there is a basic understanding that I wish to share.   

One thing I am attempting to do is to show a photo of an iris, and then show photos of it's two parents in order to get an idea of how the offspring gets the coloring and patterns it expresses.  It is not an easy task to do, since I am unable to get parents that are seedlings of mixed linages.  I am searching for pictures of modern irises and looking up their liniages to see if they only have two parents that are introduced varieties and not seedlings.  For instance, Eagle's Landing has two introduced varieties as parents: Mesmerizer X Silverado.  Those two pictures are easy to find.

Any help, by the way, in finding out varieties that have pictures of their parents in the archive would be greatly appreciated.   

----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Mann
Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 7:16 AM
To: iris-talk
Subject: [iris-talk] HYB: history - educating hybridizers?

While rummaging around the archives hunting for something else, I ran
across a thread about the need for hybridizers & how to encourage them.
And the idea of having accreditation for hybridizers.  Considering the
wealth of information that's been exchanged thru this forum since this
was posted, I thought it was worth a bit of reminiscing & wonder what
Chris would say now, 6+ yrs later.:
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From Mallorn archives, Rt66 iris-l:
<Mon, 25 Mar 1996
What I would like to see is an educational program from the AIS (very
similar to what the judges already have) with the focus on hybridizing.
I think the long term result from a program like this will
maintain/increase the number of hybridizers and would definitly help
pass on the knowledge.

Unfortunately, there have been quite a number of well known and
knowledgable hybridizers die in the past year. Should it just be left to
chance to hope that others appear to replace them? Of course, nobody
would be obligated to participate in such instruction or courses, but
what budding hybridizer could resist the potential of such knowledge?
Chris Hollinshead Mississauga, Ontario Canada>

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Linda Mann east Tennessee USA zone 7/8
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iris-talk/Mallorn archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-talk/>
iris-photos/Mallorn archives: <http://www.hort.net/lists/iris-photos/>







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